The automaker also gave upbeat forecasts for this fiscal year, marking a solid recovery from a hardship-filled year following the tsunami in Japan.

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Toyota Quarterly Profit Quadruples on Recovery

The owner of a Harley Davidson swept away by last year’s tsunami in Japan is delighted that the motorbike has been found washed up on the Canadian coast.

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VIDEO: Biker delighted at tsunami Harley find

Earthquake triggers a tsunami alert

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In pictures: Indonesia Aceh quake

An empty Japanese fishing vessel washed out to sea by the March 2011 tsunami is spotted drifting off the west coast of Canada.

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Tsunami ship drifting off Canada

A fishing trawler swept away more than a year ago by a tsunami off the east coast of Japan has been spotted floating near British Columbia, Canadian officials said Friday.

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Boat lost in tsunami spotted in Canada

As the nation marks the anniversary of the 2011 quake and tsunami, an undertaker who cared for nearly 1,000 corpses using Buddhist rituals is lauded as a hero.

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A Year Later, Undertaker’s Story Offers Japan Hope

KAMAKURA, Japan At 2:46 p.m. this Sunday, March 11, my family and I will join millions of Japanese standing silently, perhaps at a Buddhist temple or a Shinto shrine. With heads bowed, we will remember the events of one year earlier, when our house swayed for nearly three minutes, the power died, and, in the Tohoku region a couple of hundred miles north, waves engulfed entire towns and two nuclear plants. We’ll relive the sorrow over the 19,000 lives lost in the Great East Japan Disaster, as the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami are known here. Read full article > >

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Last year’s tragedy failed to rouse Japan from its stagnation

Tsunami alert lifted.

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Strong Quake Shakes Indonesia

After last year’s crisis after the tsunami.

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Japan to Shut Down Nuke Plants

Footage has emerged of an Indonesian girl who her family says has been reunited with her parents seven years after she was swept away in the 2004 tsunami.

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VIDEO: Footage emerges of ‘tsunami girl’

Japan’s prime minister says the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has finally been stabilised, nine months after the earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan declares Fukushima stable

Japan is planning a monumental and unprecedented cleanup at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the hope that the displaced can go home.

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Japan’s Huge Nuclear Cleanup Makes Returning Home a Goal

TOKYO — Radioactive debris from melted fuel rods may have seeped deeper into the floor of a Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear reactor than previously thought, to within a foot from breaching the crucial steel barrier, a new simulation showed Wednesday. The findings will not change the ongoing efforts to stabilize the reactors more than eight months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was disabled, but they harshly depict the meltdowns that occurred and conditions within the reactors, which will be off-limits for years. Read full article > >

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Simulation shows deeper meltdown at tsunami-hit Japan nuclear reactor than previously thought

Northern Ireland is facing a “tsunami” of obesity-related diseases which the health service will struggle to cope with, a doctor who runs a weight clinic warns.

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Obesity ‘tsunami’ warning for NI

Eight months on from the earthquake and tsunami

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In pictures: Tsunami recovery from the air